I'm primarily interested in using technology to add value to things people care about -- greater profit, better movies, better health care, new forms of art and entertainment, increased privacy and security, better politics. For my PhD thesis, I'm working on improving 3D compression to enable new forms of network-based art and entertainment. I have also worked on technology policy, mobile computing, information security, computer vision, and computational finance. I choose new projects based on the people involved and the potential to add value rather than on my familiarity with any one existing solution.

A.B., magna
cum laude, Princeton University,
1994.
Major:
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Minor: Applied and Computational Mathematics
Thesis:
The Effect of Environmental Costs on International Trade

C++ software developer for a leading retail forecasting company. Experience programming with STL on Windows and Solaris, improving forecasting algorithms, training other employees, and working with customer-facing personnel.

Research in HP's Client Media Systems Laboratory, one summer on volume rendering and one summer on handheld devices. Published two invention disclosures, a conference paper, and a patent application. Programming on Windows NT and Windows CE with Visual C++.

Assistant on an international trading desk, responsible for
evaluating, developing, and trading new strategies, for negotiating contracts,
and for troubleshooting international legal and accounting issues. Developed
and traded a new strategy that earned a seven-figure profit for the firm.
Implemented analysis and accounting tools in C, sql, awk, tcl. Series 7, 3, and
63 registrations.

Researching, developing, and implementing state-of-the-art compression and
other tools for a 3D Internet Server in C++ and perl. Developed encodings
that held world records for best guaranteed compression of triangle meshes.

Designed and implemented new visualization interfaces for a
high-performance, distributed simulation, using C++, CORBA, and pthreads on
Irix and Solaris systems. Maintained large user interface code using CVS, and
trained undergraduate programming assistants in C++ and Inventor.

D. King, "The Effect of Environmental Costs on International Trade," Undergraduate Thesis, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 1994. won Lt. John Larkin Memorial Prize as Best Thesis in Political Economy.